Paris, Pierre Vallet and Gabriel Tavernier, 1613.
Les Adventures Amoureuse de Theagenes et Cariclee. Sommairement descrite, et representee par figures. Dedié au Roy par Pierre Vallet, son brodeur ordinaire.
Extremely rare first and only edition of the mannerist printmaker Pierre Vallet’s (c. 1575-1657) celebrated illustrated adaptation of Heliodorus of Emesa’s Greek novel Aethiopica (or Theagenes and Chariclea) (c. 250 A.D.?). The volume contains, in addition to its engraved title page, 120 exquisite narrative etchings/engravings, one for each page of..... More